Calendar
Fall 2018-2019
Thursday, September 6th, 2018
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Social Science Seminar
Stochastic Revealed Preferences with Measurement Error
Victor Aguiar,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Western Ontario,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, September 13th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Imperfect Beliefs Voting Model
Benjamin Ogden,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Texas A & M University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When Fair Isn't Fair: Understanding Choice Anomalies Involving Social Preferences
Jeffrey Naecker,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Wesleyan University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, October 5th, 2018
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity: Lessons from Psychiatric Genetics
Lauren Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Space Barons and the New Space Age
Christian Davenport,
Author, Staff Writer,
The Washington Post,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 11th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Learning Fast or Slow
Terrance Odean,
Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, October 15th, 2018
10:00am
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Florian Engert,
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Words and Weapons: Analyzing Reactions to Gun Violence with a Social Media Panel
Nicholas Adams-Cohen,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Failures in Contingent Reasoning: The Role of Uncertainty
Emanuel Vespa,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Science of Shakespeare
Dan Falk,
journalist, author, and broadcaster,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, October 19th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
New Centrality Measures in Networks and their Application
Fuad Aleskerov,
Professor,
National Research University Higher School of Economics and Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Election Coverage and Slant in Television News
Gregory Martin,
Assistant Professor of Political Economy,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Efficient Coding and Risky Choice
Lawrence Jin,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 25th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research
Justin Birru,
Associate Professor,
Fisher School of Business,
Ohio State University,
Friday, October 26th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar
Universal growth in production economies
Simina Brânzei,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Purdue University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Measurement and Ontology
Jeff Barrett,
Chancellor’s Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Stochastic Dominance under Independent Noise
Luciano Pomatto,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 1st, 2018
8:00am
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11/2
5:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar
Information Design in Service Systems and Markets
Krishnamurthy Iyer,
Assistant Professor,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE),
Cornell University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Tampering with Information
Odilon Camara,
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 8th, 2018
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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** CANCELED ** T&C Chen Center for Brain-Machine Interface Distinguished Lecture Series.
"Dynamic Sensorimotor Control and Brain-Machine Interface"
He Cui,
Principal Investigator and Lab Head ,
Laboratory of Neural Mechanism of Motor Control ,
Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T & C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture
Toward a Normative Account of the Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control: Shared vs. Separated Representations and Interactive vs. Independent Parallelism
Jonathan Cohen,
Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor,
Princeton University,
Friday, November 9th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
A neuroeconomic measure of social avoidance
Johannes Schultz,
Assistant Professor,
Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Visuomotor Task Learning in Hippocampus and Parietal Cortex"
Christian Klaes,
Emmy Noether Group Leader,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany,
Saturday, November 10th, 2018
2:00pm
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11/11
3:00pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Towards a Global History of Biodiversity
Daniel Lewis,
Lecturer in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington Library,
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
11:30am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Road to Efficiency Through Communication and Commitment
Joao Ramos,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading
Eavan Boland,
Irish Poet and Author; Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program, English Department, Stanford University,